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Lexie Bodenhamer May 2014
Fire
Inside my lungs
Inside my throat
Smoke clouding my sight
I see no end
The flames are growing
With every blink

Tears flood my eyes
The fire is unscathed
All I see is red
The red from my soul

I scream
The fire is encouraged
My shrieks give the fire hope
Hope is unstoppable

I breathe in soot
My throat is disintegrating
Within my lungs
But not my heart

My heart fights back

The warrior of the body
No chance of giving up
The heart creates hope
Hope is unstoppable

The epic battle
The fire swings
The heart absorbs
The fire weakens
The heart does not

The heart becomes the fire
The heart prevails
The heart creates hope
Hope is unstoppable
  May 2014 Lexie Bodenhamer
Anonymous
I’m sick of everything.
Genuinely tired,
my brain has disconnected
no longer
Wired
No longer inspired
Motivation has disappeared
No more desire
There is no burning fire
That makes me want to succeed
I’m not depressed
I’m not anxious
Not emotional
For ***** sake
I just find no point
in wasting precious years of your life
The best ones at that,
Can’t you see?
Education,
Can’t you ******* see what it’s done to me and
What it’s done to us
This community
It’s turned us in to brainwashed lunatics
Who refuse to listen
Who grow up and see
That they can’t live for themselves
They could never think for themselves
Or decide what they wanted to do
It was put into their heads
Burned into their brains
We’re not robots
Can’t you see
Can you?
I
thought
that this was
the ‘land of the free’
Guess I was wrong, wasn’t I
There is no longer any desire
There was never any at the start
I just believed their little game,
You people convinced me that I was smart
So that I would grow up to be one of your pawns
You thought that I’d be a part
Of this never ending cycle,
Well guess what
You’re ******* wrong
Get it through your heads
I’m not some piece on a game board
That you can control step by step,
I’m a living being
With my own thoughts
And actions
You’re you, I’m me
This life is mine,
leave mine alone
and fix your own
Just leave me be

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